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Washington Report
(March 24, 2015) Congress has until Friday to approve a bipartisan plan that would stave off a 21 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement for doctors that takes effect April 1. The reduction would also affect doctors who treat TRICARE patients. Without the fix, doctors may refuse to... Read more

Washington Report
(March 17, 2015) TRICARE will stop paying for some prescription pain killers that include ingredients in compounded medications that it considers unsafe or ineffective. The changes will take effect May 1, according to a news release from TRICARE.
The changes will affect only those... Read more

Washington Report
(March 3, 2015) NGAUS supports additional choices for health care for National Guard members who are enrolled in TRICARE, but more information about costs is necessary before the association would feel comfortable eliminating TRICARE, the NGAUS president told senators last week.... Read more

Washington Report
(February 24, 2015) Mistakes involving claims payments that are too high or too low are being missed by the TRICARE audit system, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office. The report was the subject of an article in Stars and Stripes last week.
According to... Read more

Washington Report
(February 18, 2015) As tax season begins, Defense Department officials want to remind TRICARE beneficiaries of changes in the tax laws, which require all Americans to have health insurance or potentially pay a tax penalty.
For the first time since the Affordable Care Act passed in... Read more

Washington Report
(February 10, 2015) A commission's recommendation that TRICARE be abolished in favor of a system that offers more choice was questioned last week by Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee. The Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission included the... Read more

WASHINGTON (February 2, 2015) ― The National Guard Association of the United States today released the following statement by retired Maj. Gen. Gus Hargett, the NGAUS president.
“National Guardsmen nationwide applaud the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission for providing... Read more

By Ron Jensen
January 30, 2015
NGAUS sees much that National Guardsmen might like in the report released Thursday by the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission, but the 15 recommendations made by panel members after two years of study and input from 150,000 interested parties... Read more

WASHINGTON (Dec. 2, 2014) —The National Guard Association of the United States today released the following statement by retired Maj. Gen. Gus Hargett, the NGAUS president:
“The compromise fiscal 2015 National Defense Authorization Act now awaiting approval by the full House and Senate sends a... Read more

Washington Report
(Dec. 2, 2014) The Air Force will not retire A-10 fighter aircraft and the Army will not transfer AH-64 Apache helicopters from the National Guard in the current fiscal year.
Those are two important highlights of the fiscal 2015 National Defense Authorization Act hammered out by... Read more